A few posts ago I busted a box of 1999 Skybox WNBA Hoops trading cards. It was a product I chased when it released, but shortly afterward I got out of collecting and pretty much stopped following the WNBA. I mentioned in that post that I had decided to collect cards featuring point guard Ticha Penicheiro at that time, but hadn't gotten very far with that collection. I decided to look her up and see what was out there. She's got a few cards out there. COMC lists 47 cards for her. Beckett lists a total of 56 cards, with two of those being 1/1's. She's got a couple handfuls of serially-numbered cards, a few relic cards, and a few autographs. Overall it should be a challenging PC to build, but not an overwhelming one. The 1/1's are probably out of the question, but most everything else is numbered to #/50 or higher.
The first thing I went out and chased down was an autograph card. This is her 2006 Rittenhouse WNBA Autographs card, celebrating the Sacramento Monarchs 2005 WNBA Championship. Beckett says she has 4 more autographs out there, so this one gets me to 20% on the autograph front.
Penicheiro had a pretty good career in the WNBA, playing in 15 seasons for three different teams. She led the league in assists 7 times and is the current all-time leader in that category. She is second all-time in steals. She won one championship, made the All-Star Team four times, made the All-WNBA 1st Team twice, and the All-WNBA 2nd Team once. She was named one of the Top 15 WNBA players of all time in 2011 and one of the WNBA Top 20@20 in 2016.
